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CVE-2019-16278

Critical CVSS 9.8 Known exploited

Published 2019-10-14 · last changed 2026-06-17 · added to CISA KEV 2024-11-07

This one is being exploited in the wild.

CISA added CVE-2019-16278 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-11-07. Federal agencies are required to remediate it on a deadline. If you have affected machines, this is the class of finding that moves ahead of the rest of the queue.

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2019-16278, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

Directory Traversal in the function http_verify in nostromo nhttpd through 1.9.6 allows an attacker to achieve remote code execution via a crafted HTTP request.

Sources

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H